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Margaret Llewelyn Davies (Londra, 25 gennaio 1861 – 1944) è stata una scrittrice, saggista e attivista britannica.
Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861–1944) was the general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild from 1899 until 1921.[1][2] During her tenure, the Guild became far more politically active than it previously had been.[2]
Davies's election was a "turning point" in the organization's history; her tenure ushered in an era of unprecedented growth and success for the guild.[3] Davies was considered to be such a significant figure in the guild that Catherine Webb considered Davies's retirement such a significant loss for the Guild that she began writing The Woman with the Basket, her history of the Guild to that time.[1] She was a prominent and dedicated pacifist of her era.[4]
Davies had an unusual upbringing; her parents were involved in radical intellectual movements when she was a child.[5] Her father was a fellow of Trinity College and an outspoken foe of poverty and inequality, active in Christian Socialist groups, and also involved in the early co-operative movement.[5] Many of her extended family were also politically active, especially around the issue of women's suffrage.[5]
Her brother Arthur Llewelyn Davies was a barrister, whose five sons were the inspiration for J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.
References
- ^ a b Barbara J. Blaszak, Matriarchs of the movement : female leadership and gender politics within the English cooperative movement, 1. publ., Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0313309953.
- ^ a b Karyn Stuckey, Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861–1944) and the Women’s Co-operative Guild, su co-op.ac.uk, National Co-operative Archive. URL consultato il 6 April 2013.
- ^ Jean Gaffin, Caring & sharing : the centenary history of the Co-operative Women's Guild, 2nd, Manchester, Holyoake Books, 1993, ISBN 978-0851952017.
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- ^ a b c Gillian Scott, Feminism and the politics of working women : the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War, London, UCL Press, 1998, ISBN 1857287983.